Bodrum Ancient Theatre

This guide to the Bodrum Ancient Theatre follows a Greek theatre built for tragedy and comedy that Rome later converted for a rougher kind of show, walling off the orchestra floor to hold back gladiators and animals loosed to fight them. It also traces the theatre's long burial under a hillside cemetery and the professor who began digging it out in 1973. Listen from the upper rows, where the stone seating still climbs the same slope those ancient crowds once filled.